Starting with the mistaken U.S. decision to drop the first fission bombs on ... The U.S. would gain a singular nuclear monopoly, armed with the most powerful weapons imaginable.

July 16, 1945, marked a turning point in history with the first nuclear test, named Trinity, in the New Mexico desert in the ...

There were (and are) significant powers in the worlds of politics and business reluctant to limit or decommission weapons ... for and against nuclear weaponry has been ongoing since the process of ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

On May 18, 1974, India alerted the world there was a new player in the atomic arms race with its first nuclear weapons test, code-named Smiling Buddha. That same year, two Princeton University ...

It is no coincidence that Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland openly raised the possibility that his country may need to arm itself with nuclear weapons. Both major parties ... Trump’s “America First ...

But the series goes well beyond a general discussion about Israel’s nuclear weapons. It shows the ... to conduct at least one low-yield fission test—even though they had promised not to do this—to be ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea unveiled for the first time a nuclear-powered submarine under construction, a weapons system that can pose a major security threat to South Korea and the U ...

In the eighty years since of the atomic bombings of Japan dozens of opportunities to halt the macabre march of nuclear ...